4 Conclusion

4 Conclusion

The need for software infrastructure to build distributed applications is essential to controlling complexity and following the more and more dynamic aspect of applications. Nevertheless none of infrastructures described above is predominant. For instance, it exists at the moment very few hardware components compatible with UPnP or Jini, and other competitor standards arrive such as Havi for audio-video appliances. The architecture job consists in understanding common features as well as underlining interesting properties of every infrastructure, in order to use the best of each.